The Center on Family Demography and Public Policy
The Center on Family Demography and Public Policy focuses on family and household demography as related to larger social and economic processes, with a particular emphasis on child and family policy. Under this overall heading, our research portfolio includes interdisciplinary studies organized around four themes:
- the determinants and consequences of trends in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing;
- the determinants and consequences of changes in fatherhood, and patterns of child support and visitation by non-resident parents;
- the determinants and consequences of the use of child care;
- intergenerational transfers and relationships.
Our central objective is to advance knowledge on each of these themes by rigorously investigating population trends and processes and how they are connected to child and family policy. This includes attention both to how changing family and household demography alters the policies required to effectively meet the needs of America's children and families, as well as how public programs and policies affect family behavior and child and family wellbeing.
The Center hosts a weekly "brown bag" seminar with speakers from around the Columbia campus as well as from other universities and research centers. Seminars meet on Tuesdays from 1:00-2:15 (unless otherwise indicated), in room 1109 of the School of Social Work.
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| Fall 2009 Seminars |
| September 22 |
Irwin Garfinkel
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University School of Social Work
"The Effects of the Great Recession on Fragile Families" |
September 29
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Melissa Martinson
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Health Across the Life Span in the U.S. and England" |
October 6
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James Riccio
Director, Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area, MDRC
"Evaluating NYC's Experimental Conditional Cast Transfer Program (Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards) for Low-Income Families" |
October 13
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Naomi Eisenstandt
Director, the UK Social Exclusion Taskforce, Cabinet Office
"Ten Years of Early Years Policy Practice and Research" |
October 20
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Howard Chernick
Professor of Economics, Hunter College
"Redistribution at the State and Local Level: Consequences for Economic Growth" |
October 27
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Judith Scott-Clayton
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
"On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement"
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November 10
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Andrew White
Director, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
Title TBA |
November 17
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Edward Wolff
Professor of Economics, New York University
"The Middle Class Squeeze " |
| November 24 |
Ira Gang
Professor of Economics, Rutgers University
"Revealed Informal Activity" |
| December 1 |
Yao Lu
Assistant Professor of Socioogy, Columbia University
"Migration and Health in Developing Settings" |
| December 8 |
Jane Waldfogel
Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Britain's War on Poverty"
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| December 15 |
Bob Shapiro
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Title TBA |
